Repository details

Southern California Earthquake Data Center

Name of repository
Southern California Earthquake Data Center
Additional name(s)
  • SCEDC
Repository URL
http://scedc.caltech.edu/
Subject(s)
Description
The Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) operates at the Seismological Laboratory at Caltech and is the primary archive of seismological data for southern California. The 1932-to-present Caltech/USGS catalog maintained by the SCEDC is the most complete archive of seismic data for any region in the United States. Our mission is to maintain an easily accessible, well-organized, high-quality, searchable archive for research in seismology and earthquake engineering.
Contact
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
  • RRID:SCR_000663
  • RRID:nlx_154718
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
http://scedc.caltech.edu/about/dchistory.html
Research data repository language(s)
  • eng
Data and/or service provider
  • serviceProvider
Institution name
Southern California Seismic Network
Additional name(s)
  • SCSN
URL
http://www.scsn.org/
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
Southern California Earthquake Center
Additional name(s)
  • SCEC
URL
https://www.scec.org/
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
California Institute of Technology
Additional name(s)
  • Caltech
URL
http://www.caltech.edu/
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
Geological and Planetary Sciences , Caltech's Seismological Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • GPS, Caltech's Seismological Laboratory
URL
http://www.seismolab.caltech.edu/
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
U.S. Geological Survey, Advanced National Seismic System
Additional name(s)
  • ANSS
  • USGS
URL
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/anss/
Contact(s)
  • cwolfe@usgs.gov
  • benz@usgs.gov
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Earthquake Hazards Program
Additional name(s)
  • USGS, NEHRP, Earthquake Hazards Program
URL
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
U.S. Geological Survey
Additional name(s)
  • USGS
URL
https://www.usgs.gov/
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
other
URL
http://scedc.caltech.edu/about/data-index.html
DataLicense
other
URL
http://scedc.caltech.edu/about/faq.html#photos

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • other
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • DOI
Name of the repository software
  • other
Data citation guideline
http://scedc.caltech.edu/about/citation.html
Author identifier system(s)
  • none
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (1)

API type
other
URL
http://service.scedc.caltech.edu/

Alerting services (2)

Type of alerting service
RSS
Alerting service
http://scedc.caltech.edu/rss/atom/latest_eq_atom.xml
Type of alerting service
RSS
Alerting service
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/index.atom

Remarks

Remarks
Earthquake Catalogs: http://scedc.caltech.edu/eq-catalogs/index.html The Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) operates at the Seismological Laboratory at Caltech and is the primary archive of earthquake data for southern California. The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is headquartered at the University of Southern California and is a community of scientists and specialists who actively coordinate research on earthquake hazards. The Data Center is a central resource of SCEC and is supported by SCEC, but it is a separate entity.
Entry date
2015-03-27
Last update
2018-12-20
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re3data.org: Southern California Earthquake Data Center; editing status 2018-12-20; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3ZS8F last accessed: 2020-07-07